Mark Zuckerberg

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 29, 2015

Facebook reports that revenue in its fourth quarter increased 49 percent but that expenses rose 87 percent from year-ago quarter due to stock payouts to employees; chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had warned about increased expenses months earlier, and says he is pleased with company's growth. MORE

Jan. 6, 2015

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook page on books he is reading and invites users to comment; his first pick, The End of Power by Moises Naim, sends its sales soaring. MORE

Dec. 8, 2014

Lu Wei, the de facto head of China’s Internet policy, was greeted warmly by tech executives, but faced strong criticism from officials in Washington. MORE

Oct. 23, 2014

At a forum at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Facebook’s chief executive discussed his thoughts on the company’s future in the country and why he is studying Chinese. MORE

Oct. 21, 2014

Charitable giving to address Ebola tragedy is almost nonexistent, when compared to rush to donate after major disasters; relief agencies that typically seek donations after catastrophe are mostly silent, and are increasingly relying on large gifts from people like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. MORE

May. 28, 2014

Judicial authorities in Iran sentence eight Facebook users to prison terms of as long as 20 years and order Mark Zuckerberg, American founder of Facebook, to testify in separate lawsuit contending company's social media applications violate privacy; court order to Zuckerberg is unenforceable, but developments strongly suggest conservative ideologues controlling courts and police in Iran are intensifying challenge to Pres Hassan Rouhani, who has called for greater Internet freedom for Iranians. MORE

Apr. 17, 2014

Farhad Manjoo State of the Art column notes that string of innovations by Facebook have failed to catch on, despite the popularity of its social media service; says company founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg seems unworried by this trend, and has outlined a strategy of unbundling its social network into discrete and nimble mobile applications. MORE

Dec. 14, 2013

Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who established the Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012, is expanding the universe of his largess; he and Mark Zuckerberg have set up the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, which will begin handing out $3 million awards to mathematicians in 2014. MORE

Jul. 4, 2013

Silicon Valley advocacy group FWD.us, after financing flashy television ads that drew criticism for promoting pet conservative causes, is trying to turn around its image as it prepares for fight for immigration overhaul in the House; group was created by Joe Green with financial backing from his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg. MORE

May. 9, 2013

Fwd.US, new nonprofit advocacy group created by Mark Zuckerberg and others to push for overhaul of immigration law, has bankrolled television ads endorsing conservative stands taken by three lawmakers; move prompts outcry from liberal groups and a call to withhold ads from Facebook; group's supporters say they were ready for the reaction. MORE

Feb. 26, 2013

The Week column; Internet entrepreneurs Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Ann Wojcicki award $3 million each to 11 researchers in medicine and biology; other significant developments in health and science news highlighted. MORE

Dec. 19, 2012

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg plans to donate nearly $500 million in company stock to nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation for allocation toward health and education issues. MORE

Oct. 2, 2012

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg meets with Russian Prime Min Dmitri A Medvedev in Moscow; Russia is an important test case for the balancing act Facebook is undertaking in countries that have traditionally heavily regulated, if not censored, their media. MORE

Sep. 5, 2012

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg aims to instill confidence in Wall Street, saying he will hold on to his shares and options longer and allow his employees to begin selling theirs sooner; announcement amounts to a repurchase of several million shares; the company's stock has lost more than half its value from the public offering in mid-May, closing at $17.73 a share. MORE

Aug. 21, 2012

Facebook is worth just over half of what it was with its May initial public offering, with shares closing at $20.01; firm and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's challenge is to convince Wall Street that it has a real plan for making money. MORE

May. 27, 2012

Profile of Priscilla Chan, who updated her Facebook status to married after her May 19 wedding to founder Mark Zuckerberg. MORE

May. 22, 2012

Matrimonial law experts say whatever Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg earned before his marriage to his girlfriend Priscilla Chan is still solely his property afterward; their marriage just a day after Facebook's initial public offering has prompted speculation of a pre-nuptial agreement. MORE

May. 14, 2012

Facebook buys small companies on a regular basis, almost two dozen over the last two years, to beef up its team of engineers, add to the site's offerings and sharpen competition with rivals; because it tends to be tight-lipped about its plans, the company's string of acquisitions reveals a lot about how chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is charting a course for its future. MORE

May. 13, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive officer, will soon face the unfamiliar landscape of running a public company, monitored by a merciless stock market; its initial public offering could value it at nearly $100 billion; Silicon Valley venture capitalists and entrepreneurs as well as colleagues and outsiders laud Zuckerberg, saying he is an increasingly assured leader, one tempered by failures as well as astonishing successes. MORE

Feb. 8, 2012

Op-Ed article by tax lawyer David S Miller notes that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will likely never pay any taxes on the majority of the shares in the company he owns due to the nature of the current tax code; argues that the tax system should be reformed so that the superwealthy pay at least a little income tax on their unsold shares of successful companies. MORE

Feb. 4, 2012

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead of the company's initial public offering, which will translate into a big tax benefit for the firm; his tax bill will likely be around $2 billion, among the highest ever for an individual; company expects a deduction mirroring its employees' option compensation to eliminate taxes on its 2011 profits. MORE

Feb. 3, 2012

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s success is seen as a lesson in what works in Silicon Valley: stay in charge, stave off potential predators and expand the company so quickly that no one can challenge the boss; he has more than one-fourth of the shares in the company, and his agreements with other investors enhance his voting power to almost 60 percent of total shares. MORE

Feb. 2, 2012

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg publishes letter proclaiming that his company 'was built to accomplish a social mission--to make the world more open and connected;' observers say as investors scramble to get a piece of Facebook ahead of its initial offering, he wants to paint a portrait of a company with goals far loftier than the moneymakers on Wall Street, and certainly loftier than most mere businesses. MORE

Nov. 2, 2011

Foundation for Newark's Future, nonprofit funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, has as its goal to give every child in city of Newark, NJ, a high-quality education; Gregory Taylor, president and chief executive of organization, faces challenge of turning $100 million in funding into transformational change amid intractable problems. MORE

Oct. 17, 2011

James Collins Op-Ed article, in light of Steve Jobs' decision never to meet his biological father, makes tongue-in-cheek claim that he is natural father of 'adopted' Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. MORE

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Tsering Woeser, a writer in Sichuan Province and prominent critic of Chinese policies toward Tibetans, said Facebook deleted her post on the self-immolation of the 37-year-old monk Kalsang Yeshi, without explanation.

December 11, 2014, Thursday

The social network says it will give English-language users in the United States the ability to search the content of Facebook posts to unearth specific bits of information that are currently difficult to find among the more than one trillion posts...